Chapter 117 Hall
Almost at the same time that the delphinium discovered the remaining beast, the remaining beast that was eating also discovered the delphinium.
The two looked at each other briefly, and the crippled beast suddenly dropped the corpse in its hand, jumped up from the desk, and leaped straight to the delphinium at the door.
"roar!"
Delphinium's face was slightly cold, and a magic wand appeared between her opening and closing palms. Just as the crippled beast rushed in front of her, she pulled hard on its head.
Bang! The magic wand exerted force and smashed the beast heavily to the ground.
The knocked-down beast immediately struggled to get up, and kept making demonstrative roars, but Delphinium did not give it a chance to regroup. It turned its wand towards its head and fired a burst of magic beams, directly turning its head into a pool of ashes.
After dealing with the crippled beast, she quickly flew to the body that had been left behind, examined it, and discovered that the unfortunate employee of the Strategy Bureau had indeed lost his life.
The crippled beast that appeared in the office was not very powerful, probably only at the egg level. However, to ordinary people, and even magicians, it was a monster like a natural disaster. No wonder it could cause such a tragic scene.
Except for the one employee whose body was still intact, the rest of the victims could not even be pieced together into a complete body, which shows just how brutal the brutal beast was.
After searching the office for a while and failing to find any useful information, Delphinium had no choice but to go back to the door and open her palms towards the remaining animal limbs on the ground, trying to recover the echo of the remaining animal.
However, following Delphinium's attempt, the remains of the beast dissipated into a wisp of black smoke right before her eyes, leaving nothing behind.
This is a remnant beast without response.
It took Delphinium a few seconds to allow herself to comprehend this fact, but even after seeing it with her own eyes, she still found it hard to believe it was real.
Based on her past knowledge and understanding, it was impossible for such a brutal beast to exist.
A crippled beast without resonance is almost equivalent to having no source of magic power of its own. As a pure magical creature, a crippled beast without a source of magic power is fundamentally impossible to survive.
The source of magic power to the remnant beast is like the heart to humans. Humans without hearts cannot sustain their lives, so how can a remnant beast without a source of magic power exist? Even more, can it still hunt and fight with itself like it did just now?
Delphinium couldn't understand.
However, after a brief moment of confusion, she quickly put this emotion behind her, because she knew that now was not the time to think about this problem.
She knew very well what her current task was. Rather than studying why this crippled beast did not produce any response, the first priority was to investigate the current situation of the Strategy Bureau.
For example, why did the Strategy Bureau not react at all when they encountered the attack of the remnant beasts? Even if they could not defeat them, they could escape or seek refuge. They should have notified the local magical girls to come and defeat the remnant beasts.
This question did not bother Delphinium for long, because when she took out her mobile phone and tried to ask the team in Baian City, the symbol displayed on the top of the screen gave the answer.
——[No signal].
Delphinium was not surprised, but rather relieved, because she had a better understanding of the situation: the signal here was blocked and the message could not be transmitted.
She didn't know whether the Bai'an City's Strategy Bureau had any special means of external communication, but she thought it was unlikely.
In other words, from the moment of the attack, the headquarters of the Strategy Bureau, which was located underground and was originally a safe fortress, turned into a huge closed cage, locking up the employees of the Strategy Bureau and the crippled beasts together.
What is the current situation of the Bai'an City Special Policy Bureau? Apart from this office where someone was killed, where are all the other employees?
How many people are still alive? Are there any other remaining beasts here? Delphinium needs to find out these questions first.
After putting away the magic wand in her hand, she laid the dead employee of the Strategy Bureau flat on the ground, closed his eyes, and left the office. She continued to search the first floor of the Strategy Bureau, but no matter how hard she searched, she could not find a room with people.
The sound of her footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, and the bright lights shone directly on the tiles on the ground, reflecting white dots. These white dots formed a line, as if leading to an endless place, as if the space here had also become a maze with no end.
In the underground space where there is no distinction between day and night, no one can tell the difference between day and night. The dead silence all around seems to swallow up even time.
Delphinium began to feel that the atmosphere here was a bit dull. Even though the surrounding environment was bright and open, it was difficult to erase the ubiquitous sense of disharmony. Most of the offices were just like what she saw when she came here, with doors wide open and various furnishings scattered around, but no living things were seen.
This is very wrong.
Delphinium thought to herself.
Even if there was an attack by brutal beasts, there was no reason for the situation inside the Strategy Bureau to become as weird as it is now.
She could understand why the place was so quiet and deserted. After all, most people would choose to flee when faced with an attack from brutal beasts. In this regard, the employees of the Strategy Bureau were no different from ordinary people.
However, if things were really that simple, the Yi Ce Bureau should not be in the current situation.
The two biggest inconsistencies are: the buildings are too well preserved, and there are not enough corpses.
It wasn't that Cuiqiao deliberately cursed the Yi Ce Bureau, but in fact, the crippled beast she had killed should have been wreaking havoc in the Yi Ce Bureau for quite some time.
The office where the crippled beast was located was hundreds of meters away from the lobby of the Strategy Bureau. With such a long distance, it was impossible for the crippled beast not to cause destruction and killing.
As a life form that is naturally full of violent instincts, the logic of a brutal beast's actions is often to kill any living thing, and destroy everything around it if there is no living thing.
Even the brutal beasts transformed from the evil followers of Black Dawn that appeared in Fangting City before could not restrain their instincts, and their action logic would be completely transformed into that of brutal beasts.
It doesn't make sense for such a life form to advance hundreds of meters and still completely suppress its instincts without causing any destruction.
Maybe that beast is really too special?
Delphinium guessed so, but she still couldn't convince herself.
If the situation at the beginning was beyond Delphinium's expectations, then the current situation has gone beyond her imagination, and the whole picture has begun to become confusing.
With many doubts and puzzles in mind, but these puzzles were not answered in the investigation, Cuiqiao finally walked out of the office area and returned to the first floor lobby of the Strategy Bureau.
Just like when she came, the hall was still empty. The huge spherical ceiling was inlaid with rows of lights, and the blazing white light was much brighter than the corridors in the office area.
Looking at the interconnected glass gates outside the hall and imagining the usual prosperous scene here, Delphinium paused for a moment and shook her head.
She decided to check out the other floors.
She walked into the elevator next to the lobby and stood in the elevator car to observe for a while. She found that the elevator here only went down. The top floor was [-1F], and the other floors went down in sequence. Considering that this was an underground building, there was no problem with this arrangement. Delphinium didn't think much about it and clicked the [-2F] button.
Soon, the elevator door slowly closed, and a breeze blew in the car. Amidst bursts of roars, the elevator slowly descended, stopped after a moment, and displayed the information [-2F].
Nothing unexpected happened during the period, which surprised Delphinium.
Watching the elevator door slowly open with an expressionless face, Delphinium walked out of the elevator door and looked around the so-called underground second floor, trying to observe the general outline at the first possible moment.
However, when she saw the surrounding furnishings clearly, the scene before her made her brain buzz.
Because she didn't see any underground second floor. In front of her, it was still the bright hall of the underground first floor.
Is it that the elevator is not moving? With such doubts in mind, Kuei-Jia turned back and walked into the elevator car, looking at the screen above. However, the screen that had written [-2F] in her memory had changed and showed [-1F].
Did she press the wrong button? Did she see it wrong? Delphinium raised her head and tried to find the button in her memory. When she did so, she realized how naive her previous thoughts were.
In fact, let alone the [-2F] button, she couldn't even find any other numbers.
[-1F]
[-1F]
[-1F]
[-1F]
[-1F]
All the buttons I saw had the same number written on them.
A series of buttons for the underground first floor were densely packed on the control panel. Only this one number could be found in the entire elevator car, as if silently sneering at Delphinium.
Standing there and looking at the control panel for a while, Jade Bird said nothing, moved his legs, jumped out of the elevator, and ran towards the staircase entrance on the side.
She pulled open the door of the stairwell with great force and threw it aside. What came into view was a stairwell that led to both the upper and lower floors. Without thinking too much, she ran downstairs. When she reached the platform on the next floor, she suddenly opened the door of the stairwell and rushed into the space outside the door.
——The first thing that caught my eye was the hall.
The first floor lobby of the Strategy Bureau remained unchanged.
The empty hall, the bright white lights, the buzzing sound of electricity, everything was exactly the same as when she came here, without any change.
Delphinium had no expression on her face and continued running.
This time, her target was the main door of the hall - the glass gate through which she came.
After passing through the gate, what she saw was still the white passage she came from, as if she had finally arrived at a new space, but Delphinium's mood did not improve at all. She still ran forward with an expressionless face.
She had a vague feeling that things would not be that simple.
In fact, this was indeed the case. As she returned along the same path and returned to the space from which she should have come, what she saw was not what she expected at all.
What she saw was still the glass door.
A sandblasted glass door that dimly revealed the light from behind but obscured the view behind it. It was exactly the same as the one she had seen when she came here.
Delphinium looked at it for a while without showing any panic, and just continued to move forward. After passing through the glass gate, she raised her head and looked at the space behind the door again.
Of course, this time, what she saw did not surprise her.
This is still the hall of the Strategy Bureau.
(End of this chapter)
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